Serovar Caribe

Caribe TRVL 61866 1978

The strain was isolated in 1965 from the kidney of a brown rat (Rattus norvegicus), captured in the dockland area of Port of Spain-Trinidad. The strain was studied serologically and described as a new serovar caribe by Green et al. (1978). The serovar caribe was officially recognized by the TSC in 1986 and included in the Revised List of 1988 (Kmety & Dikken, 1988).---* Green A.E., Sulzer C.R., Evarard C.O.R., Jones W.L.: Four new Leptospira serotypes from Trinidad. West Ind. Med. J. 27, 1978, 117-126.* TSC meeting, 1986, Manchester: Minutes. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 37, 1987, 472-473.* Kmety E., Dikken H. Revised List of Leptospira Serovars (accepted by the Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of Leptospira). University Press Groningen, 1988, p. 16.